Posted on 12/27/2020 4:46:10 AM PST by NOBO2012
~Warren Zevon
My husband said he alway heard Secret Asian Man instead of Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers.
For five decades, I was hearing “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones wrong. For one thing, I thought a baritone saxophone was playing the opening notes, but the instrument is actually a guitar plugged into some sort of electronic device.
As to the lyrics, until the Internet came along, I thought they were singing “He’s telling me more and more about some news and information,” but the actual expression is “useless information.” I heard “a man comes on and tells me I’ve got to wash my shirts with bleach” when it was actually “how white my shirts can be.” And instead of “trying to meet some girl,” the narrator actually says he’s trying to “make” some girl.
I, too, thought they were singing "shy violet"--perhaps in answer to The Mills Brothers' My Shy Violet (1968)
Anger issues?
The hymn, “Glady the Cross-Eyed Bear”.
A little girl was asked to draw a picture of the Nativity along with the rest of her class. At the end of the school day, the drawings were sent home for the parents to adore and display on their refrigerators, or in another place of prominence.
Betsy’s mom was excited when her daughter told her she drew her very own picture of the Nativity. “Oh, let me see!” her mother exclaimed. When she glanced at the picture, she became rather confused. She saw an airplane drawn right in the middle of the page.
Betsy’s mom asked her daughter if this was the correct picture - the one of the Nativity.
“Of course, Mommy! You know!” replied Betsy. “That’s the flight into Egypt!!”
Her mom then looked at the figures riding in the plane and saw a very angry man in the front of the plane. “Who is this angry looking man?” her mom asked. “Mommy! Betsy answered with frustration. “That’s Pontius the Pilot!”
Her mom, feeling like she needed to “get with it” in understanding her daughter’s drawing, continued on....”I see Joseph here, and Mary,...but who is the really big guy in the back?”
With a sigh, her daughter blurted out: “You know this, Mommy! That’s round John Virgin!”
The original, to me, is Louie Louie.
Nobody has mentioned Bruce Springsteen who’s “Wrapped up like a douched in the middle of the night.”
Yup... Anger issues.
:)
Love it! Thanks for posting!
Hope you had a great Christmas!
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